http://davidrendel.org.uk/newsarchive.php Recent News Stories from David Rendel en-GB David Rendel http://davidrendel.org.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2010 David Rendel 2010-03-12T00:43+00:00 United Kingdom http://davidrendel.org.uk/news/000192/lib_dems_propose_lower_council_tax_for_west_berks.html A lower Council Tax rise of just 1.5% for West Berkshire residents is proposed today by the Liberal Democrat Group. Shadow Finance spokesperson, Councillor David Rendel, commented, "Every penny in peoples' pockets counts in these dark financial times. The West Berkshire Council Liberal Democrats are proud to be putting forward a robust set of proposals. If these are approved, people will have to pay less council tax than if the Conservative proposal for a 1.9% increase is put in place. 2010-03-03T20:14+00:00 http://davidrendel.org.uk/news/000191/president_peer_predicts_prodigious_progress.html Baroness Ros Scott, national President of the Liberal Democrat Party, was the guest of honour at a very successful spring dinner of the Newbury constituency Liberal Democrats last Friday evening. 2010-02-08T17:00+00:00 http://davidrendel.org.uk/news/000190/candidate_predicts_labcon_pact_after_ge.html The President of the South Central Region of the Liberal Democrats, David Rendel, gave a rousing closing speech at their Spring Conference, held this year in Park House School, Newbury on Saturday. 2010-02-08T09:20+00:00 http://davidrendel.org.uk/news/000189/rapid_response_agreed_to_snow_problems.html The two Liberal Democrat members of the Council's watchdog Scrutiny committee last night forced a split in the Conservative ranks and ensured that the Council will now hold a rapid review into the way it reacted to the recent bitter weather. 2010-01-27T11:47+00:00 http://davidrendel.org.uk/news/000188/rendel_welcomes_chance_to_save_green_fields.html "If the Tories really want to cut out greenfield development from the plans for West Berkshire, we have shown how that can be done," said Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Spokesperson, David Rendel. 2010-01-27T11:45+00:00 http://davidrendel.org.uk/news/000187/rendel_in_the_clear_on_mps_expenses.html Sir Thomas Legg has written to David Rendel (Newbury's MP from 1993 to 2005) to confirm that "Mr Rendel has no issues" in relation to his MP's expenses for the years 2004/5 and 2005/6. 2010-01-22T20:53+00:00 http://davidrendel.org.uk/news/000186/over_1000_families_thrown_off_waiting_list.html Recent suggestions by Conservative Housing spokesperson, Alan Law, that the Housing Waiting List in West Berkshire was coming down have led to the discovery that over 1,000 families have been unceremoniously dumped off the waiting list. 2010-01-22T20:51+00:00 http://davidrendel.org.uk/news/000185/rendels_2010_new_year_message_to_west_berks_residents.html Liberal Democrat Parliamentary spokesperson for Newbury, David Rendel, has today sent a New Year message to his fellow-residents in West Berkshire. 2010-01-01T15:36+00:00 http://davidrendel.org.uk/news/000184/6000_lose_all_help_with_travel_costs.html A massive fall in the number of vulnerable people, who were being helped by West Berkshire Council with their travel costs, has been uncovered by David Rendel, Liberal Democrat Prospective Parliamentary Candidate. 2009-12-28T12:26+00:00 http://davidrendel.org.uk/news/000183/without_a_home_at_christmas.html A massive increase has been reported in the number of those in West Berkshire hoping unsuccessfully for a home this Christmas. Figures just published by the National Housing Federation show that the increase in West Berkshire's housing waiting list over the last five years is 159%, higher than any other unitary authority in the South East. 2009-12-21T15:51+00:00 http://davidrendel.org.uk/news/000182/why_is_elderly_care_like_a_boiler.html If you know your boiler is old and might break down any minute, you may well have tried to put away some money in the bank. Then, if things do go badly wrong, you can afford to get a replacement boiler put in straightaway. 2009-12-16T21:02+00:00 http://davidrendel.org.uk/news/000181/green_or_a_deeper_shade_of_blue.html David Cameron's Tory MEPs have launched a last minute attempt to scupper the EU's Copenhagen position of cutting carbon emissions and increasing climate change aid for developing countries. 2009-12-03T14:53+00:00 http://davidrendel.org.uk/news/000180/public_apology_demanded_from_mp.html In an open letter to Newbury's MP, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary spokesperson, David Rendel, has demanded a public apology for the 2005 description of Newbury's new cinema project as "a massive misuse of public money". 2009-11-18T14:21+00:00 http://davidrendel.org.uk/news/000179/secret_meeting_with_no_secrets.html Members of the Press and Public were not allowed to attend a 'secret' briefing held at 6pm last night. Yet only two hours later the full contents of the briefing were disclosed to the Press, when copies of all the slides used were handed round. 2009-10-21T10:06+01:00 http://davidrendel.org.uk/news/000178/massive_overspend_threatens_care_of_the_elderly.html "The prospect of massive cutbacks in spending within Community Care services announced today could clearly threaten the quality of service provided to our elderly and vulnerable adults in West Berkshire" said Liberal Democrat Community Care Spokesperson, Owen Jeffery. Calling on the Council to use some of its superfluous financial reserves instead of cutting spending he added, "Reserves are there to deal with 'rainy days' and right now this service is suffering a downpour!" 2009-10-20T22:51+01:00